RESIDENTS who helped build Shepshed Swimming Pool are being asked to come forward to help shape a club’s 40th anniversary.

Shepshed Swimming Club, which uses the pool run by Hind Leys College on its Forest Street campus, celebrates the landmark anniversary next year.

Plans are still in their early stages but the club hopes to put on an event for past and present members to come together and is therefore trying to piece together the club’s history.

Margaret Callender, secretary of Shepshed Swimming Club, said: “We don’t know exactly what we want to do yet but 40 years is a long time for a club to operate, especially one like ours, which compared to the likes of Loughborough is tiny.

“All we know is that the people of Shepshed helped dig out the pool so we would like to see there’s anybody still around who helped to do that and if we can organise an event to include them as well as current members and past members.

“We’ve been contacted by someone who says they were one of the first members of the club and want to come to our annual presentation evening, which is held in September. It may be that’s when we decide to do something but it really depends on what kind of response we get.

“If anybody has got any information and would like to make contact us that would be smashing and photographs would be good as well.”